Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement—when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.
Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alice Paul. The Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. The 1913 Women's March in D.C. When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white.
That's not the full story.
Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as full, equal citizens of the United States. Their battlefront wasn't just about gender. African American women had to deal with white abolitionist-suffragists who drew the line at sharing power with their black sisters. They had to overcome deep, exclusionary racial prejudices that were rife in the American suffrage movement. And they had to maintain their dignity—and safety—in a society that tried to keep them in its bottom ranks.
Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this.
| SKU | 120799 |
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| ISBN | 9780451481542 |
| Language | English |
| Guided Reading Level | Z+ |
| Page Count | 176 |
| Product Type | Hardcover Books |
| Book Type | Middle Grade Nonfiction |
| Primary Contributor | Evette Dionne |
| Age Groups | Ages 10 to 12, Ages 13 to 15, Ages 16 to 18 |
| Publisher | Viking Books for Young Readers |